Katherine L. Gudiksen and Erin Fuse Brown

November 12, 2021

Evidence shows that health care consolidation leads to higher health care costs with little to no increase in quality — and the pandemic may be driving more consolidation. In the NASHP report, A Tool for States to Address Health Care Consolidation: Improved Oversight of Health Care Provider Mergers, The Source Senior Health Policy Researcher Katie Gudiksen and Erin Fuse Brown detail key considerations for provider merger oversight laws and co-authored a model legislation that can give states additional tools to oversee transactions that may harm competition.